2026 Scuderia Ferrari HP F1 Team

[edu2703]

We know that because Adami was highly regarded alongside Sainz and Vettel, and now he looks like a fool with Hamilton.

Adami was never "highly regarded" unless this is reddit slang for something else, then I agree.

I don't know what seasons you have watched, but Adami was already the running joke working with (or against) Vettel and the same with Sainz, who had to do all the thinking from the cockpit.

You might want to watch some of these highlights on youtube to refresh your memory.

Anyways, I'm done arguing. What do I care if they want to keep doing what they're doing and getting the results they're getting.

Let's hope they can come up with a monster of a car to compensate because I want to see Leclerc fighting for wins and championships.

I find it incredible how your comment validates exactly what I just said about this whole Adami discussion.

Repeating what I said: This Adami discussion only exists because Hamilton had a below-average year, therefore it's necessary to point a finger at someone. If Hamilton had a good year, I doubt you'd be talking about Adami here.

The fact that you ask to see race highlights to see what Adami is like also speaks exactly to what I said, about this discussion being biased, based only on a few controversial phrases and moments that were carefully selected by FOM to broadcast for entertainment purposes. Nobody does an analysis based on the complete communication during the races and Adami's work outside of the races. People here are picking out 3-4 moments of conflict between Adami and the drivers and think that's enough to label him mediocre.

Let's make one thing perfectly clear: Adami did NOT cause Hamilton to lose any races, podiums, or important points in 2025 entirely because of his own fault in failing to provide Lewis with crucial information or providing incorrect information. And before anyone mentions race strategies, Adami alone doesn't decide them.

Hamilton had the opportunity to change, but chose to continue with Adami. That should be the end of this discussion. Enough with this witch hunt. Let's move on.

[aMessageToCharlie]

We know that because Adami was highly regarded alongside Sainz and Vettel, and now he looks like a fool with Hamilton.

Adami was never "highly regarded" unless this is reddit slang for something else, then I agree.

I don't know what seasons you have watched, but Adami was already the running joke working with (or against) Vettel and the same with Sainz, who had to do all the thinking from the cockpit.

You might want to watch some of these highlights on youtube to refresh your memory.

Anyways, I'm done arguing. What do I care if they want to keep doing what they're doing and getting the results they're getting.

Let's hope they can come up with a monster of a car to compensate because I want to see Leclerc fighting for wins and championships.

You guys this is funny... you think an engineer is to be judged by the communication during the race???
Their work is mostly other things, than to chat on the radio....
Things you do not see or hear about. But you judge them by some selected unfortunate radio coms by the F1 broadcast...
Come on!!!
Also, most great engineers are not the best in talking, reading feelings, etc. These are not HR people or movie directors to be awesome in chatting...

Remind me... who is the only person allowed to communicate to the driver during a session, responsible for conveying all the required information? Oh yeah, that's right, it's the race engineer.

[AR3-GP]

Remind me... who is the only person allowed to communicate to the driver during a session, responsible for conveying all the required information? Oh yeah, that's right, it's the race engineer.

[edu2703]

Remind me... who is the only person allowed to communicate to the driver during a session, responsible for conveying all the required information? Oh yeah, that's right, it's the race engineer.

Compile a list of all F1 races in 2025 where Hamilton was directly harmed by a "comm error" from Adami, which prevented him from achieving a better result. And so, you might have a point here.

Obviously, exclude bad strategies, because Adami doesn't decide that alone, and other minor radio conflicts that don't interfere with Hamilton's race at all.

A race engineer isn't a football coach who decides everything in a race. He's a transmitter of messages and relevant information that are analyzed in real time by a large team of engineers at the factory and on the pit wall. The race engineer's role is to filter this immense amount of data and pass the most relevant information to the driver.

[PDR]

When a car is mediocre, the discussion for race engineers removes focus from real problem which is factory's team performance.
The discussion makes sense for seasons like 2022 or even 2024 where a few errors from race teams led to victories or championship loss

[sucof]

You guys this is funny... you think an engineer is to be judged by the communication during the race???
Their work is mostly other things, than to chat on the radio....
Things you do not see or hear about. But you judge them by some selected unfortunate radio coms by the F1 broadcast...
Come on!!!
Also, most great engineers are not the best in talking, reading feelings, etc. These are not HR people or movie directors to be awesome in chatting...

Remind me... who is the only person allowed to communicate to the driver during a session, responsible for conveying all the required information? Oh yeah, that's right, it's the race engineer.

Soo, answer this: When you are racing in an F1 car, you want a person you can talk to, who is the best in talking or the best in knowing your car, your strategy, the settings, the team etc...
Come on....!
As the others said: point to at least one occasion when he communicated something so badly that something bad happened!! You can not.
While you are focusing on the needle in the haystack, they managed through 24 race weekends, with free practices, qualifying, races, pre/post meetings without any big problems.

[deadhead]

When a car is mediocre, the discussion for race engineers removes focus from real problem which is factory's team performance.
The discussion makes sense for seasons like 2022 or even 2024 where a few errors from race teams led to victories or championship loss

Very good point

[catent]

We know that because Adami was highly regarded alongside Sainz and Vettel, and now he looks like a fool with Hamilton.

Adami was never "highly regarded" unless this is reddit slang for something else, then I agree.

I don't know what seasons you have watched, but Adami was already the running joke working with (or against) Vettel and the same with Sainz, who had to do all the thinking from the cockpit.

You might want to watch some of these highlights on youtube to refresh your memory.

Anyways, I'm done arguing. What do I care if they want to keep doing what they're doing and getting the results they're getting.

Let's hope they can come up with a monster of a car to compensate because I want to see Leclerc fighting for wins and championships.

Only if you judge race engineers by cherry-picked radio clips instead of the totality of their careers.

Adami is a competent, well-regarded race engineer. You don’t get entrusted with Vettel for years, then Sainz, and now Hamilton at Ferrari if you’re some kind of liability or running joke. Scapegoating Adami because his and Hamilton's relationship isn’t instantly perfect, is unfair.

Pulling radio clips from YouTube is also a terrible way to evaluate a race engineer. Every single long-tenured engineer has awkward moments, miscommunications, or tense exchanges on the radio (Bono, GP, etc). Radio snippets are selected because they’re dramatic, not because they’re accurate, holistic representations of a given engineer's career competency.

What’s actually happening here is a mismatch in communication style, amplified by a very loud, perpetually online segment of Hamilton fans who treat any discomfort from Hamilton as proof someone else is incompetent.

[aMessageToCharlie]

Listen, folks, this "angry Hamilton fans" narrative is complete BS and says more about your own biases then anything else. I'm far from a HAM fanboy LOL.

Adami specifically has been controversial at least since the Vettel era and anybody following F1 for more than a year knows that.

The reality is that COMMUNICATION is a MAJOR part of his job and he's bad at it. In F1 you want to have the best people possible and improve whatever you can. Maybe they can't find anyone better - fair enough.
But insisting that he's one of the best in the business is just gaslighting based on what anyone can see and hear with their own eyes.

You're saying that he's doing so much great work behind the scenes - MAYBE, YES! But that's pure conjecture on your side as well, as nobody of us is in a position to verify that. And he could continue to do great things behind the scenes and let someone with better communication skills do the talking.

You're saying that yes, maybe his communication sucks but whatever, it didn't cost them a win or a championship. That's like saying why bring a FW update that gives you 1/10 sec laptime when youre 3/10 slower than your next rival. Why change the FW, it's not like the old one cost you a win.

You're saying if he wasn't top notch at his job, FERRARI would have axed him long ago.
Then why doesn't this argument apply consistently to all other areas as well?! If the politics and power struggles were an issue, they would have fixed it long ago. If the technical leadership were a problem, they would have fixed it long ago. A F1 team isn't a perfectly rationally operating machine and obviously any longtime employee is more than just his measurable performance which is an understandable reason to hold on to them.

Doesnt change the fact that success in F1 is the sum of all parts and if there is opportunity to improve they should do it.

If you can't follow that argument then so be it. Let's put this whole discussion to rest.

[AR3-GP]

When a car is mediocre, the discussion for race engineers removes focus from real problem which is factory's team performance.
The discussion makes sense for seasons like 2022 or even 2024 where a few errors from race teams led to victories or championship loss

These topics are not "unfocused". There are already 1000+ pages of criticisms about the cars that Ferrari have constructed in the last 4-5 years. The discussion has been exhausted.

2025: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32051
2024: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31493
2023: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30867
2022: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30146

[PDR]

When a car is mediocre, the discussion for race engineers removes focus from real problem which is factory's team performance.
The discussion makes sense for seasons like 2022 or even 2024 where a few errors from race teams led to victories or championship loss

These topics are not "unfocused". There are already 1000+ pages of criticisms about the cars that Ferrari have constructed in the last 4-5 years. The discussion has been exhausted.

2025: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32051
2024: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31493
2023: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30867
2022: https://www.f1technical.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=30146

I understand your point.
The focus of course is not at Ferrari 's fans but at scuderia Ferrari themselves.
Also I would rephrase real problem with key problem.
The engineering department is continuously underperforming since 2008.
The reference of course is the level of performance of 1998-2008 period.
It is obvious of course that whenever the race team had to raise their game, they were not always there. It costed titles and plenty of victories.
But this is happening when you have zero buffer compared to competition.
Either driver buffer or car buffer.
We don't have MSC at his prime neither the machineries of the past.
We don't even have Max, who is a TIER1 driver of all time and not only of his era.
Charles is brilliant but he is missing the self confidence of being a WDC.
The truth is that in this regulation circle we were the no3 force, even if we were close at 2022 and 2024 with first one.
Near miss = lack of performance buffer from car and/or driver in my point of view.
The team, not the fans, have to focus on performance from engineering/ design team.
The performance of race team should be out of discussion and just to be expected as standard.
Hiring of high profile engineers did not go well the last years...
Even when we did good hirings , e.g. James Alinson, we were not able to keep them in the team no matter the personal reasons behind this.
Ferrari has to rethink their strategy and create a hub also in UK if this is the key problem for not hiring advanced and experienced engineers and also connect better with Italian Technical Universities in order to have better engineering graduates joining the team in the future.
It is not a simple equation and I am certain that the people inside Ferrari know better the situation than an individual with just an engineering background who is an external observer and a tiffosi.

[dren]

Ferrari’s problem is that they are Ferrari.

[PlatinumZealot]

The engineer always looks bad when the team and driver can’t live up to their own expectations. Adami was essentially a nanny this past season, tasked with keeping Hamilton happy whilst being asked to do strategic miracles by his fans.

I dont know, Seemed to me like some times LH asked a questions, some times no reply would ever follow, he would ask for information, and Adami would tell him some thing completely off subject and not even give a reply to what LH asked, that is a big big big big big big big big difference to how other engineers communicate with their driver , It has rightly been pointed out in the media because well, The communication is miles off. Its almost like they hate each other.

Some times LH just got flat out ignored and he is asking if he had done some thing wrong on the radio like a little boy who has upset his girlfriend............... That is far far far from being professional.

Again, in the last races he literally asked Adami to stop acknowledging his comments and that they had talked about it.

What are we talking about? That they are not on the same page is obvious, that Adami will be replaced rather than HAM if they don’t improve is also obvious. But that this is just Adami’s fault or that’s the reason why ham had a bad season, lmao come on.

You missed the point of that reply from Lewis. And in that same vein is exactly why Adami needs to adapt to his driver for 2026!!

[PlatinumZealot]

Be patient people. There is a 7XWDC in the team. Allow it to marinate and build up. We saw a 1xWDC wasnt enough in 2009, a 2XWDC wasn't enough 2010 to 2014 and a 4WDC!! wasn't enough 2015 to 2020, so if 7 is not the lucky number then there is no saving them.

[edu2703]

Ferrari needs to open a base in the UK and stop this ''Italian pride'' that has been dragging the team down for years.

It's necessary to accept the best F1 engineers today are British. And most of these engineers are against the idea of ​​moving to another country and dealing with cultural and language differences to go to Ferrari, when there are other teams based in the UK where they can work without needing to do so.

I'm not saying there aren't competent people in Italy, but the Motorsport Valley in the UK has a wealth of people with immense skills and potential. A valuable source of human resources that Ferrari can barely tap into due to geographical distance.

Ferrari already tried this in a time before the internet, when technical drawings had to be sent by fax or mail. Nowadays, with fiber optics, VR, and high-speed internet, integration would be total between the bases. Engineers in Maranello and the UK would be able to work together in real time. Ferrari is missing an opportunity in the name of this stupid and senseless nationalism.

Nobody criticizes Mercedes for "betraying its German roots" by having its headquarters and building its engines in the UK. Nobody criticizes Audi for having its headquarters in Switzerland and a base in the UK. Ferrari will not cease to be Italian, or become "less Italian," simply by opening a base in the UK but remaining headquartered in Maranello. This is something that Ferrari's leadership needs to get into their heads urgently.